@Shoey - how could i have missed the Plextor piccy in your sig!. That's good as i was only posting what i could see as haven't used a Plex drive of any sort since their 32speed scsi PX32Tsi many moons ago. Glad you could clear up the firmware aspects from personal experience as opposed to my attempts to help from googling. ps I guess you know of the Plextools article but just in case you didn't - http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=138061&page=1&pp=25 (i've been reading up on this as it's another shameful mess along with what's happening to Lightning UK over his DVD Decrypter proggie)
